Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Ananda Bhavan, sans Chaat

Crap! Just when we were getting excited at the thought of being able to get refreshing delights such as pani puri and papdi chaat late at night thanks to Ananda Bhavan's 24 hour business period, we got denied. As it turned out, these guys shut down their chaat counter at 11:30 PM (we got there at 11:35), and none was to be had. We thus had to fall back on the normal menu, upon which we grabbed a couple bhatura.

And while the bhatura was certainly piping hot and tasty with its sliced onions and such, we still felt shortchanged without being able to get any chaat. And as a result, I no longer get as excited about this place being open 24 hours anymore. Is there anywhere else where one can find chaat late at night?

In fact, I saw those boxes of pani puri at Mustafa this past weekend too. I nearly bought a box until I flipped it over to look at the instructions and realized that it still took a bit of effort to do the potato stuffing and stuff. I then put the box back on the pile.

Fortunately, I did find cans of pav baji as well as ful medames. I'll give a full report when the bachelor in me decides to heat one of them up in the microwave someday.

Hi bma and greetings from Finland.I found accidentally your blog a while ago and it has become one of my favourites.We are heading to Asia next fall. I'll be reading your postst in order to get some ideas where we would like to go and what to eat. Visiting Hanoi is our main target, but we will be flying in to Bangkok and have couple weeks time to taste different things. We have asian restaurants over here, but those are pretty lame. They all seem to buy everything from the same wholesale merchandice ;( So there is so mucgh to be learned from your blog before we hit the road.So please keep going w/ this exellent blog. Thank You !